Nearly 250 marriages covering 1584-1752 for Brettenham in Suffolk are now online!

Nearly 1,000 burials for Brettenham in Suffolk now online, from 1584-1812. Take a look!

The first set of my Brettenham, Suffolk transcriptions is now online – over 700 baptisms from 1584-1700!

Over 1,400 burials for Hitcham in Suffolk from 1721 to 1812 now online.

I’ve got more bapisms and marriages to follow for Hitcham, then we’re off to the neighbouring parish of Brettenham!

Did you know: there’s another Hitcham in Buckinghamshire, and another Brettenham in Norfolk?

Over 1,000 baptisms for Hitcham in Suffolk, from 1707-1750, are now available online.

More to follow!

I’ve transcribed baptism and burials up to 1812, and I’m transcribing marriages up to 1837. I’m also working on neighbouring Brettenham – you might find some of your Hitcham ancestors popping up there too!

Over 1,100 burials from 1607-1720 for Hitcham in Suffolk now online!

Over 850 births from 1763-1837 and nearly 60 burials from 1783-1794 from Wattisham’s Baptist chapel are now online. The records give place of residence, and you’ll find people from around Wattisham – parishes such as Hitcham, Bildeston, etc – and even from some places in Essex. If you’ve been unable to track down an elusive ancestor, perhaps you’ll find them here!

Nearly 450 marriages from Hitcham in Suffolk from 1600-1754. More to follow, up to 1812!

Nearly 1,000 baptisms for Hitcham, Suffolk, from 1636-1706.

The names were Latinised (apart from 1642-1657), so once again, I’ve provided two lists for the same period – the original, as directly transcribed with Latinised names, then another version where I’ve Anglicised the names, to try to take them back to what they were.

All this Latinising makes for complicated registers, and unlatinising makes it even more confusing! If you’re not comfortable with Latinised names, start with the Anglicised spreadsheet, then cross-check with the Latin version.

More Hitcham to follow, where it doesn’t get any easier once someone took over who couldn’t spell….

The first of my Hitcham, Suffolk, transcriptions are now online – baptisms 1575-1635!

The register has various issues. The earliest baptisms begin 1575, the earliest marriages 1600, and the earliest burials 1607. The register is written almost entirely in Latin until 1715. I’ve provided a spreadsheet of my verbatim, Latin transcriptions, but I’ve also provided a version where I’ve changed the Latinised names back into English. This isn’t an exact science, thanks to names like Jacobus/Jacobi which could be Jacob or James, and as I’ve used batch replace sometimes, it may have caused unexpected changes – I did check them but you never know what might slip through! You might find it easiest to look at the English version first, then check it against the Latin version.